Ralph McLean's Country
From the sound of Nashville to new bluegrass, Ralph McLean explores American roots music, featuring a selection of classic country, live performance and timeless Americana
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00dnzs9
Fri 3 Jan 2014
20:03
BBC Radio Ulster
Ralph McLean and Jim Meredith assess some of the finest releases of 2013.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03mt7r5
Ralph McLean and Jim Meredith assess some of the finest releases of 2013, from Bill Callaghan to John Murry and Willie Nelson.
Jazz Record Requests
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Stan Tracey Tribute
Sat 4 Jan 2014
17:00
BBC Radio 3
Alyn Shipton selects listeners' requests remembering the late pianist Stan Tracey.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03nc2sm
Alyn Shipton selects listeners' requests remembering the late Stan Tracey, from Under Milk Wood in 1965 to The Flying Pig in 2013.
Music Played
01. Afro-Charlie Meets The White Rabbit
Stan Tracey
Composer: Tracey
Performer: Kenny Baker, Les Condon, Eddie Blair, Ian Hamer, t; Keith Christie, Chris Smith, Wally Smith, tb; Alan Branscombe, Ronnie Baker, Ronnie Scott, Bobby Wellins, Harry Klein, reeds. Performer: Stan Tracey, p; Jeff Clyne, b; Ronnie Stephenson, d. 8 March 1966
Alice in Jazzland, Resteamed, RSJ 102, Tk 2 (5.09)
02. Starless and Bible Black
Stan Tracey
Composer: Tracey
Performer: Bobby Wellins, ts; Stan Tracey, p; Jeff Clyne b; Jackie Dougan, d. 8 May 1965
Under Milk Wood Suite, Jazzizit, 9815 Tk 2 (3.51)
03. The Cuban Connection
Stan Tracey
Composer: Tracey
Performer: Guy Barker, t; Malcolm Griffiths, tb; Peter King, as; Art Themen, Don Weller, ts; Stan Tracey, p; Dave Green, b; Clark Tracey, d. 30 Nov 1993
Live at the QEH, Blue Note, CDBLT 1010 T.7 (10.09)
04. Black Butterfly
Stan Tracey
Composer: Ellington
Performer: Stan Tracey, p; Roy Babbington, b. 1986
Stan Tracey Plays Duke Ellington, Mole Jazz, 10, Side B Tk. 3 (5.10)
05. Conjunction
Stan Tracey, Keith Tippett
Composer: Tracey, Tippett
Performer: Stan Tracey, Keith Tippett, p. 21 August 1977
Supernova, Resteamed, 105 tk 5 (5.47)
06. Three Against One
Stan Tracey, John Surman
Composer: Surman, Tracey
Performer: John Surman, ss; Stan Tracey, p. April 1978
Sonatinas, Steam, SJ 106 S1 T 2 (6.25)
07. Dream of Many Colours
Stan Tracey
Composer: Tracey
Performer: Stan Tracey, p; Kenny Napper, b; Phil Seaman, d. 22/26 May 1959
Little Klunk, Vogue, VA160155, S1, Tk 3 (3.09)
08. Ballad For Loos
Stan Tracey
Composer: Tracey
Performer: Mark Armstrong, t; Simon Allen, reeds; Stan Tracey, p; Andrew Cleyndert, b; Clark Tracey, d. 30 Jan 2013
The Flying Pig, Resteamed, RSJ 113 Tk 5 (7.09)
09. Kindly Leave The Stage
Stan Tracey
Composer: Tracey
Performer: Stan Tracey, p; Peter King, Dennis Walton, as; Tony Coe, Alan Skidmore, ts, cl; Ronnie Ross, bars; Derek Watkins, Tony Fisher, Henry Shaw, Greg Bowen, t. Performer: Keith Christie, Chris Pyne, Mike Gibbs, tb; Frank Ricotti, vib; Dave Green, b; Bryan Spring, d; 1970
Seven Ages of Man, EMI / Columbia, SCX 641 S 2 T 4
Geoffrey Smith's Jazz
Geoffrey Smith's Jazz does exactly what it says on the tin: a weekly programme in which Geoffrey Smith shares his passion for jazz, through an exploration of its great writers, singers and players, as told from his own individual perspective. Having spent more than twenty years as host to Jazz Record Requests, reading listeners' letters and observing their passion for all types of jazz, Geoffrey Smith goes solo in this new series, exploring and illuminating the story of great jazz across its entire range, through personally-selected sequences of tracks.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01h5z0s
Duke Ellington Band
Sun 5 Jan 2014
00:00
BBC Radio 3
Geoffrey Smith presents classic tracks by the 1930s Duke Ellington band.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03nc680
Geoffrey Smith gets 2014 off to a regal start with classic tracks by the 1930s Duke
Ellington band, crowned by his epic performance of "Diminuendo and Crescendo
in Blue" from the 1956 Newport Jazz Festival.
Music Played
01. Echoes of the Jungle
Duke Ellington
Composer: Williams, Mills
Performer: Freddy Jenkins, Arthur Whetsel, Cootie Williams, t; Joe Nanton, tb; Juan Tizol, vtb; Barney Bigard, cl, ts; Johnny Hodges, as, ss, cl;. Performer: Harry Carney, bs, cl, as; Duke Ellington, p; Fred Guy, bj, g; Wellman Braud, b; Sonny Greer, d. 16 June 1931
Blue Feeling, Past Perfect, PPCD 78103 Tr9 (3.28)
02. It's Glory
Duke Ellington
Composer: Williams, Ellington
Performer: Freddy Jenkins, Arthur Whetsel, Cootie Williams, t; Joe Nanton, tb; Juan Tizol, vtb; Barney Bigard, cl, ts; Johnny Hodges, as, ss, cl;. Performer: Harry Carney, bs, cl, as; Duke Ellington, p; Fred Guy, bj, g; Wellman Braud, b; Sonny Greer, d. 17 July 1931
Jubilee Stomp, Bluebird, 74231101532 Tr12 (3.10)
03. Solitude
Duke Ellington
Composer: Ellington, De Lange, Mills
Performer: Louis Bacon, Freddy Jenkins, Arthur Whetsel, Cootie Williams, t; Lawrence Brown, Joe Nanton, tb; Juan Tizol, vtb; Barney Bigard, cl, ts; Johnny Hodges, as, ss. Performer: Otto Hardwick, as, cl, bsx; Harry Carney, bs, cl, as: Duke Ellington, p; Fred Guy, g; Wellman Braud, b; Sonny Greer, d. 10 January 1934
The Duke Plays Ellington Vol 1, Topaz, TPZ 1029 Tr12 (3.24)
04. Daybreak Express
Duke Ellington
Composer: Ellington
Performer: Louis Bacon, Freddy Jenkins, Arthur Whetsel, Cootie Williams, t; Lawrence Brown, Joe Nanton, tb; Barney Bigard, cl, ts; Johnny Hodges, as, ss;. Performer: Otto Hardwick, as, cl, bsx; Harry Carney, bs, cl, as: Duke Ellington, p; Fred Guy, g; Wellman Braud, b; Sonny Greer, d. 4 December 1933
Highlights from the Duke Ellington Centennial Edition, RCA, RCDJ-63458-2 D1, Tr13 (2.54)
05. Reminiscing in Tempo – Part 4
Duke Ellington & His Orchestra
Composer: Ellington, Mills
Performer: Rex Stewart, c; Arthur Whetsel, Cootie Williams, t; Lawrence Brown, Joe Nanton, tb; Juan Tizol, vtb; Barney Bigard, cl, ts; Johnny Hodges, as, ss. Performer: Otto Hardwick, as, cl; Harry Carney, bs, cl, as: Duke Ellington, p; Fred Guy, g; Hayes Alvis, Billy Taylor, b; Sonny Greer, d. 12 September 1935
Duke Ellington 1935 - 1936, Classics, Classics659 Tr17 (3.11)
06. Echoes of Harlem
Duke Ellington
Composer: Ellington
Performer: Rex Stewart, c; Arthur Whetsel, Cootie Williams, t; Lawrence Brown, Joe Nanton, tb; Juan Tizol, vtb; Barney Bigard, cl, ts; Johnny Hodges, as, ss. Performer: Otto Hardwick, as, cl; Harry Carney, bs, cl, as: Duke Ellington, p; Fred Guy, g; Billy Taylor, b; Sonny Greer, d. 27 February 1936
Duke Ellington 1935 - 1936, Classics, Classics659 Tr23 (3.01)
07. I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart
Duke Ellington
Composer: Ellington, Nemo, Mills, Redmond
Performer: Freddy Jenkins, Wallace Jones, Cootie Williams, t; Lawrence Brown, Herb Fleming, Joe Nanton, tb; Juan Tizol, vtb; Barney Bigard, cl, ts; Johnny Hodges, as, ss. Performer: Otto Hardwick, as, cl; Harry Carney, bs, cl, as; Duke Ellington, p; Fred Guy, g; Hayes Alvis, Billy Taylor, b; Sonny Greer, d. 3 March 1938
The Essential Duke Ellington, Columbia/Legacy, 517643 2 D2, Tr1 (3.04)
08. Battle of Swing
Duke Ellington
Composer: Ellington
Performer: Rex Stewart, c; Wallace Jones, Cootie Williams, t; Lawrence Brown, Joe Nanton, tb; Juan Tizol, vtb; Barney Bigard, cl, ts; Johnny Hodges, as, ss; Otto Hardwick, as, cl. Performer: Harry Carney, bs, cl, as; Duke Ellington, p; Fred Guy, g; Billy Taylor, b; Sonny Greer, d. 19 December 1938
Duke Ellington 1938 vol.3, Classics, Classics726 (1); Tr18 (2.58)
09. Blue Light
Duke Ellington
Composer: Ellington
Performer: Rex Stewart, c; Wallace Jones, Cootie Williams, t; Lawrence Brown, Joe Nanton, tb; Juan Tizol, vtb; Barney Bigard, cl, ts; Johnny Hodges, as, ss;. Performer: Otto Hardwick, as, cl; Harry Carney, bs, cl, as; Duke Ellington, p; Fred Guy, g; Billy Taylor, b; Sonny Greer, d. 22 December 1938
Blue Feeling, Past Perfect, PPCD 78103 Tr21 (2.41)
10. The Sergeant was Shy
Duke Ellington
Composer: Ellington
Performer: Duke Ellington, p, dir; Wallace Jones, Cootie Williams, t; Rex Stewart, c; Joe Nanton, Lawrence Brown, Juan Tizol, tb; Barney Bigard, cl, ts. Performer: Johnny Hodges, as, ss; Harry Carney, Otto Hardwicke, as, bs; Billy Taylor, b; Sonny Greer, d. 28 September 1939
Les Tresors du Jazz, Chant du Monde, 5741120110 (10) D8, Tr5 (2.40)
11. Sophisticated Lady
Stan Tracey
Composer: Ellington
Performer: Stan Tracey, p. 30 November 1993
Live at the QEH, Blue Note, 7243 8 31139 2 7 Tr9 (6.16)
12. Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue
Duke Ellington
Composer: Ellington
Performer: Cat Anderson, Willie Cook, Ray Nance, Clark Terry, t; Quentin Jackson, Britt Woodman, tb; John Sanders, vtb; Johnny Hodges, as; Russell Procope, cl, as;. Performer: Jimmy Hamilton, cl, ts; Paul Gonsalves, ts; Harry Carney, cl, bs; Duke Ellington, p; Jimmy Woode, b; Sam Woodyard, d. 7 July 1956
Ellington at Newport 1956, Columbia, C2K64932 (2); D1, Tr. 19 (14.20)
Private Passions
Guests from all walks of life discuss their musical loves and hates.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tnv3
Pat Barker
Sun 5 Jan 2014
12:00
BBC Radio 3
For Radio 3's Music on the Brink season, Michael Berkeley is joined by writer Pat Barker.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03nc688
Writer Pat Barker is fascinated by the First World War; for twenty years now, her award-winning novels have returned again and again to the trauma and grief and erotic intensity of wartime. Her novels draw on the experiences of real people: Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, and in particular the army doctor W.H. Rivers, a pioneering psychiatrist who treated victims of shell shock. As this centenary year opens, with all its commemorations of the First World War, Pat Barker talks about why and how we should remember War - and about the power of fiction to tell historical truth.
She reveals that her fascination with war began as a child; she was brought up by her grandparents, and her grandfather had a bayonet wound which she saw every time he washed at the kitchen sink. 'Through my grandfather and my stepfather, I have a direct link through to the world before the war - for me it's not simply reading history.' Pat Barker herself was a war baby - born in 1943 after her mother, a Wren, had a one-night stand with a man in the RAF. She never traced her father, and that central mystery in her life, 'half my identity missing', was part of what drove her to write. She talks about the stigma her mother faced as an unmarried mother, and in a moving section of the interview she wishes she could speak to her mother now to tell her 'It doesn't matter'.
Pat Barker's music choices include her grandfather's favourite music hall song - his party piece as a boy in the 1890s; Anton Lesser reading two poems by Wilfred Owen, and Benjamin Britten's setting of Wilfred Owen in his 'Nocturne'; Butterworth's 'The Banks of Green Willow'; original cast recordings from Joan Littlewood's 'Oh What a Lovely War'; and Elgar's Cello Concerto, in the famous recording by Jacqueline du Pré.
This programme is part of the Music on the Brink, Radio 3's season examining the cultural life of Europe on the eve of war.
Music Played
Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes
00:06
Paul Rubens
Your King and Country Want You/Gassed Last Night (Oh What a Lovely War!)
Ensemble: Original London Cast
00:14
Will Godwin
The Miner's Dream of Home
Singer: Peter Dawson
00:22
Sir Edward Elgar
Cello Concerto in E minor, Op.85 (1st mvt)
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir John Barbirolli. Performer: Jacqueline du Pré
00:37
Benjamin Britten
The Kind Ghosts (Nocturne, Op.60)
Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle. Singer: Ian Bostridge
00:44
George Butterworth
The Banks of Green Willow
Orchestra: Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Sir Neville Marriner
00:55
Sir Edward Elgar
Profiscere, Anima Christiana/Go in the name of Angels (Dream of Gerontius)
Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle. Singer: John Shirley-Quirk
Words and Music
A sequence of music interspersed with well-loved and less familiar poems and prose read by leading actors
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006x35f
Music on the Brink
Sun 5 Jan 2014
17:30
BBC Radio 3
Poetry, letters, diary excerpts and music about the world on the brink of war.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03nc68d
The world on the brink of war in poetry, letters, diaries and music. The readings, by Samuel West and Carolyn Pickles, include work by Proust, Stefan Zweig, John Masefield, Isaac Rosenberg, Adelaide Mack and Edmund Gosse with music by Satie, Ravel, Zemlinsky, Berg, Rachmaninov and Webern.
Producer's Note – Music on the Brink
This Words and Music forms part of Radio 3’s Music on the Brink week. The idea is to give a cultural snapshot of Europe in the period when the threat of war became an increasing possibility, a time of both great excitement and great fear. The programme opens with a reading from Stefan Zweig’s ‘The World of Yesterday’, one of the greatest memoirs of the twentieth century. His recollection of the optimism and unlimited promise of the pre-war years is heard alongside Koechlin’s Sonata for Piano and Flute. A belief in progress, in ideas, in openness was the mood in those years. And, in 1913, the year before the outbreak of war, saw the publication of one of the great novels of the century, Proust’s ‘Remembrance of Time Past’ and hear we hear the famous madeleine moment of his lost youth. We remain in Paris for a reading from Adelaide Mack’s breathless travelogue of the city followed by Yvette Giraud’s setting of Apollinaire’s poem, ‘Le Pont Mirabeau’.
The first conversation between Freud and Jung is reported to have lasted for 13 hours. In 1908 they toured America together but, by 1913, their friendship had become strained. A letter in which Jung accuses Freud of reducing everyone to the level of children demonstrates how embittered Jung felt by this point. A firmer and more touching friendship is heard in Edmund Gosse’s letter to Lord Spencer, written in the days before the declaration of war, in which he acknowledges that the world will never be the same again and heard alongside Elgar’s melancholic ‘Carissima’, the first work of the composer’s to be recorded.
Storm clouds are gathering in Rainer Maria Rilke’s dreamlike poem, ‘Before Summer Rain’ in which an impending storm heralds the approach of an unknown terror. The music too anticipates the war to come with Webern’s ‘Cello Sonate’ and Rachmaninov’s ‘Sonata no 2’ (1913 version). The programme ends with John Masefield’s ‘August 1913’written on the very eve of war and George Butterworth’s ‘On the Banks of Green Willow’, both exploring in their own ways ideas of Englishness and what was to be lost in the conflict to come. During the war Masefield, considered too old for active duty, worked as a hospital orderly in France. The concert premiere of ‘On the Banks of Green Willow’ was in 1914, the final time Butterworth heard his own music. George Butterworth was killed in the Battle of the Somme. As Philip Larkin described it in his poem, ‘MCMXIV’, ‘Never such innocence, never before or since…..never such innocence again’.
Music and featured items
Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes
00:00
Erik Satie
Chapitres tournés en tous sens
Performer: Jean-Yves Thibaudet.
Decca 4736202, Tr17
Stefan Zweig
The World of Yesterday read by Carolyn Pickles
00:02
Charles Koechlin
Sonata for Piano and Flute op 52
Performer: Philippe Racine and Daniel Cholette.
Claves CD509003, Tr4
Marcel Proust
from In Search of Lost Time read by Samuel West
00:09
Maurice Ravel
Prélude
Performer: Steven Osborne.
Hyperion CDA6777312, Tr11
00:10
Ferré and Apollinaire
Le Pont Mirabeau
Performer: Yvette Giraud.
Marianne Melodie, Tr9
Adelaide Mack
Magnetic Paris read by Carolyn Pickles
00:15
Leo Orstein
Three Moods - Joy
Performer: Daniele Lombardi.
Nuova Era 7240, Tr12
Karl Jung
Letter from Jung to Freud read by Samuel West
00:19
Alexander von Zemlinsky
String Quartet no 2 op 15
Performer: LaSalle Quartet.
Deutsche Grammophon 4274212, Tr5
D.H. Lawrence
Ben Hennef read by Carolyn Pickles
00:23
Charles Tomlinson Griffes
Three Tone Pictures
Performer: Victoria Bogdashevskaya and the Seattle Symphony Orchestra.
Naxos 8559724, Tr11
Edmund Gosse
Letter to Lord Spencer read by Samuel West
00:25
Sir Edward Elgar
Carissima
Performer: Northern Sinfonia of England.
EMI CDC7476722, Tr14
Rainer Maria Rilke
Before Summer Rain read by Carolyn Pickles
00:38
Alban Berg
Stücke fur Klarinette und Klavier
Performer: Sabine Meyer and Oleg Maisenberg and Kremerata Musica.
Deutsche Grammophon 4471122, Tr9
James Joyce
Extract from The Dead read by Samuel West
00:33
John Tavener
To a Child Dancing in the Wind
Performer: Patricia Rozario.
Collins Classics 14282, Tr3
Georg Trakl
De Profundis read by Samuel West
00:36
Sergey Vasilievich Rachmaninov
Sonata for Piano op 36
Performer: Vladimir Davidovich Ashkenazy.
Decca 4144172, Tr12
00:43
Anton Webern
Cello-Sonate
Performer: Clemens Hagen.
Deutsche Grammophon 4471122, Tr16
Gottfried Benn - Translated by David Paisey
Express-Train read by Samuel West
00:45
Ferruccio Busoni
Nocturne Symphonique
Performer: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin.
Capriccio 10479, Tr2
00:53
Leo Orstein
Three Moods - Grief
Performer: Daniele Lombardi.
Nuova Era 7240, Tr11
Isaac Rosenberg
On Receiving the First News of the War read by Carolyn Pickles
Stefan Zweig
The World of Yesterday read by Samuel West
00:58
Ernest Bloch
Nigun
Performer: Itzhak Perlman.
RCA 82876625172, Tr16
John Masefield
August 1914 read by Samuel West and Carolyn Pickles
01:06
George Butterworth
The Banks of Green Willow
Performer: London Symphony Orchestra.
Chandos Chan9902, Tr1
